Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy
Holmes Rolston III Endowed Chair in Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
Director, Mountain Campus Program in Environmental Humanities
Faculty Affiliate, School of Global Environmental Sustainability
Faculty, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
Former Global Teaching Scholar, Semester at Sea
Department of Philosophy, 243 Eddy Hall
Colorado State University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8106-297X
http://www.linkedin.com/in/KennethShockley
A Few Recent Papers:
Shockley, K. (2026) “Environmental Harm,” The Monist, forthcoming.
Shockley, K. (2025) “Environmental Vulnerability and Climate Adaptation: Disambiguations and Possibilities” South African Journal of Philosophy, 44.2, pp 285-297.
Shockley, K. (2024) “Knowing more and acknowledging others” Ecological Citizen, Vol 7 No 1, pp. 27-34 https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/epub-098.pdf
Shockley, K. (2024) “Hope and Realizing the Potentials of the Past,” in Ondřej Beran, Laura Candiotto, Niklas Forsberg, Antony Fredriksson, and David Rozen (eds) The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions: Grief, Hope, and Beyond, Routledge. ISBN 9781032790930; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003490487
Shockley, K. (2023) “Risk Mismanagement: The Illusion of Control in Indeterminate Systems” with Ben Hale, in Stearns Broadhead & Adriana Placani (eds.), Risk and Responsibility: Theory and Application, Routledge, pp. 51-69.
Shockley, K. (2023). Two faces of vulnerability: Distinguishing susceptibility to harm and system resilience in climate adaptation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, e856. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.856
Shockley, K. (2023). Adaptation, flourishing, and the importance of place. Regional Environmental Change, 23(3), 99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02089-0
Shockley, K. (2022). The environmental constituents of flourishing: rethinking external goods and the ecological systems that provide them. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 25(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2020.1848193
Shockley, K. (2022). Living well wherever you are: Radical hope and the good life in the Anthropocene. Journal of Social Philosophy, 53(1), 59-75. https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12376